Telcordia Technologies
Telcordia Technologies, Inc. is an American subsidiary of the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson. The company provides interconnection technology and clearinghouse solutions for numbering plan, routing, call billing, and technical standards coordination between competing telecommunications carriers. Telcordia's headquarters are located in Piscataway, New Jersey (U.S.) and it has several branches and subsidiaries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Telcordia was formerly known as Bell Communications Research, Inc. or Bellcore. It was the telecommunication research and development company created as part of the break-up of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T).
Since 2013, the company is doing business as (dba) iconectiv.
History
Telcordia was created on October 20, 1983, as Central Services Organization, Inc. as part of the 1982 Modification of Final Judgment that broke up the Bell System. It later received the name Bell Communications Research, Inc. Known short as Bellcore, it was a consortium established by the Regional Bell Operating Companies upon their separation from AT&T. Since AT&T retained Bell Laboratories, the operating companies desired a separate R&D facility. Bellcore, the tenth company to register an Internet domain name in com TLD, provided joint R&D, standards setting, training, and centralized government point-of-contact functions for its co-owners, the seven Regional Holding Companies that were themselves divested from AT&T as holding companies for the 22 local Bell Operating Companies.
